影视人类学研究与非洲书写探新——晚近日本学界动态及启示

On the Visual Anthropology and Africa Writing in Contemporary Japan:Trends and Illumination

晚近日本人类学界的影视人类学研究展现新拓展,其中非洲人类学书写的反思与探索是比较活跃的一个领域。笔者通过介绍近年邻国日本学界的两个案例,即东京EC影视会活用德国国立科学研究所(IWF)《科学影视志百科库(EC Encyclopedia Cinematographica)》之非洲影视片的实践案例和日本国立民族学博物馆当代非洲影视志的拍摄及探索案例,进而提起当代中国非洲人类学影视书写和(影视)人类学资料库建设之议题。

Visual anthropology in Japan has witnessed new developments in recent years,especially on its methodological exploration concerning the visualization and presentation of Africa.This paper tries to capture such progress in Japan with two concrete cases in the field：the creative reconstruction of films of Africa in IWF＇s Cinematography Encyclopedia kept by Japan;the experimental exploration on filming and presentation of Africa carried out by Japanese National Museum of Ethnology（Minpaku）.Referring to such progress in Japan,this paper brings insights for anthropological inquiry on writing Africa in contemporary China and indicates that a database for visual anthropology is indispensible.